Swains Lane

Undoubtedly a substantial improvement architecturally.Lord Listowel has also adopted a hugely more
positive approach to the shops themselves, promising a development group with
strong community involvement.There will
also be some flexibility about whether the shops are combined.This is where we should have been several
months ago.Our prolonged engagement
with the developers has finally proved worthwhile.Whether the proposals are sufficiently
improved to mute opposition is, though, still moot.Preliminary soundings suggest that a bare
majority of the Advisory Committee, although still critical, feel the new
proposals are, with some tweaking, “tolerable, just”.There is, though, a significant minority who
feel the changes don’t go far enough.On-street servicing of the shops remains a key concern.We now need a thoughtful community debate and
we hope the developer will do everything they can to make application proposals
accessible to the whole community.

So, much improved but do the changes go far enough to
satisfy at least most of the objectors?